With her latest album, Spend A Little Time, just around the corner, Lisa Michelle Anderson’s new single lands with perfect timing to remind us of what makes her stand out for the crowd in the broad and well-populated Americana-folk-roots realm.
‘Part-Time Preacher’ is, firstly, sonically succulent, a gentle mesh of lilting accessibility, unfussy beats and unhurried sonics, a song that seems to ride the gentle musical tides, drifting rather than more obviously driven, a song delivered seemingly effortlessly and honestly.
And that honesty is the other part of this gorgeous package. Of course, the deft piano lines and understatement, the poised, pop-aware, folk-infused sounds are beguiling in their own right, but there is something beyond that that tugs at your heart. And it is not just the gorgeously clear and caressing, warm and engaging vocals with which she delivers the song, a voice that in itself would be the talking point of a longer review; it is something less tangible that echoes through the heart of the song.
No, what I hear in ‘Part-Time Preacher’ is Anderson herself. The song is open and honest to the point of vulnerability, a rare commodity in the modern world’s penchant for fakery and false sentiment. But more than that, you hear a wonderful spirit, for want of a better word, something that can only come from someone who has gone beyond genre and geography and soaked up anything and everything the world has to offer.
A gorgeous song and the perfect way to announce her new album.
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